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Dirty Rush: Reality Stars in Sororities with Janet Caperna from The Valley · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Dirty Rush, The Truth about Sorority Life with
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  Speaker 1: your hosts me Gia Judice.
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  Speaker 2: Davey Kent, and Jennifer Kessler. Hi, guys, welcome back to
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  Speaker 2: another episode of Dirty Rush. Today I have on a
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  Speaker 2: special guest who was very much involved in sorority life
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  Speaker 2: at a school in the Midwest. She's a good friend
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  Speaker 2: of mine and also in a new season of The Valley.
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  Speaker 2: Janet Caperna. Welcome to Dirty Rush. Hi my friend you guys.
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  Speaker 2: So Janet and I met. It was the BMA's right,
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  Speaker 2: I think it was.
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  Speaker 1: I heard awards.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it was I heeard awards. Excuse me, excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: Yes it was. We sat next to each other, right, yes,
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  Speaker 2: and we had the best time. I was like, who
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  Speaker 2: is this lovely, lovely woman? And we had a couple
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  Speaker 2: of the other cast members from about from the Valley
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  Speaker 2: next to us as well. Right, that was a fun night. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It was Britney's date for that, so always a
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  Speaker 1: fun night to get to be Britney's date.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. So all right, so I want to talk
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  Speaker 2: a little valley. But first, since this is Dirty Rush,
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  Speaker 2: tell me where you went to school or tell us
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  Speaker 2: where'd you go to school. What sorority were you in
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  Speaker 2: all of that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, So I went to Ohio University, not to
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  Speaker 1: be mistaken with the Ohio State University, which is like
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  Speaker 1: the buck wise. Ohio University is like an hour and
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  Speaker 1: a half southeast, a smaller school. And I was an
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  Speaker 1: English major there, and I was a Kiomega there, so
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  Speaker 1: it's a Tao Alpha chapter of Kiomega there.
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  Speaker 2: So I was an English major too. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that I ever used that degree for anything maybe you know. No,
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  Speaker 2: it did not really serve me. I just like to read.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was me too. I was like it was
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  Speaker 1: nice actually, the balance between also being a sorority girl
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  Speaker 1: and kind of having that social aspect of something and
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  Speaker 1: then getting to go like be with all my like
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  Speaker 1: nerd English majors. Yes, read and write.
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  Speaker 2: It was like just a balance, yep, yep. So okay,
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  Speaker 2: first of all, well let me just go back just
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  Speaker 2: for a minute. Where did you grow up.
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  Speaker 1: I grew up in Dublin, Ohio, so just outside of Columbus,
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  Speaker 1: where the Ohio State University is. So I never wanted
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  Speaker 1: to like go to Ohio State because it was too
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  Speaker 1: close to home. It was like fifteen minutes from my
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  Speaker 1: mom's house, So Ohio University was like an hour and
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  Speaker 1: a half drive. I was like, if I'm that far away,
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  Speaker 1: my mom won't be able to like pop in every
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  Speaker 1: day if she was, Yeah, I have to plan a
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  Speaker 1: trip down to visit me. So Hire University was like
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  Speaker 1: known as being a party school, and at the time
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  Speaker 1: in high school, I was like, that sounded really nice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear you. Well, did you have friends from
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  Speaker 2: your high school that went with you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? It wasn't, as a lot of my high school
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  Speaker 1: went to Ohio State, but I would say there was
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  Speaker 1: probably like fifteen or so kids from my high school
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  Speaker 1: that went to OU and but not a lot of
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  Speaker 1: them ended up in Greek life. So that was kind
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  Speaker 1: of like my separate thing that I could do. That
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  Speaker 1: just kind of separated me to from like having a
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  Speaker 1: break from like my high school friends.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what made you want to rush?
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I just thought it would interesting. It felt very
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  Speaker 1: college like, and I was excited for college. I wanted
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  Speaker 1: like to be able just to start over. High school
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  Speaker 1: was fine and like, you know, fun for me, but
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  Speaker 1: I really liked the idea of like having a fresh
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  Speaker 1: start and like being able to kind of I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: carve my own path have like, yeah, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: a new chapter in life. Yeah, every time I felt
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  Speaker 1: like I saw, you know a lot of stuff about
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  Speaker 1: sorority fraternity greek life in movies, and so I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know like ell Woods and legally of course, of
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  Speaker 1: course of my generation. So I felt like, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: this is just what you do in college, you like,
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  Speaker 1: find your sorority house. And it just felt very very
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  Speaker 1: college to me.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's so funny that you say that, because
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  Speaker 2: I started out at Boston University and I transferred from Texas.
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  Speaker 2: I transferred back to University of Texas, and I think
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  Speaker 2: a lot of that was about that. I just didn't
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  Speaker 2: feel like I was having that kind of college experience
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  Speaker 2: that that hole the fun of greek life and big campus.
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  Speaker 2: Although you was big, but it's a whole different scene.
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  Speaker 2: It's the city school, right, and sports and football and
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  Speaker 2: all of that. And I think that was you know
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  Speaker 2: a lot of why I transferred from you. I wanted
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  Speaker 2: I wanted all of that traditional stuff, right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I want a typical college life, which honestly,
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  Speaker 1: like I know, I've listened to a couple episodes of
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  Speaker 1: this podcast, and I feel like there's two kind of
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  Speaker 1: routes that people have with their opinions of greek life.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like the bigger schools and especially the
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  Speaker 1: more southern schools where greek life is like seventy percent
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  Speaker 1: of campus is in a fraternity or sorority, rightybe, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like the more negative experience and like the high
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  Speaker 1: pressure circumstances. Then, Like my school was a smaller school.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we had like sixteen thousand students I think
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  Speaker 1: when I was there, and I think like ten or
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  Speaker 1: fifteen percent were in Greek life. So it wasn't like
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  Speaker 1: those pressure campus. Yeah, it wasn't like everyone did it.
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  Speaker 1: It was sort of a little like niche group. It
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  Speaker 1: was sort of like, all right, if you're not doing
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  Speaker 1: a sport, if you're not in a club, like greek
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  Speaker 1: life would be kind of a thing you could do.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't like a mandatory thing and there wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a lot of pressure to do it. So I had
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  Speaker 1: a really good experience with it, and like I put
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  Speaker 1: back on my sorority days fondly. But I know a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people don't.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well, I mean I was talking about this
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  Speaker 2: with another guest, but the pressure of it, we were
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  Speaker 2: actually talking a lot about. She was saying that she
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  Speaker 2: felt a little bit less than she didn't have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the girls, and she was also into a
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  Speaker 2: southern school, but they had the money to get decked
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  Speaker 2: and the outfits were over the top. And I felt
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  Speaker 2: that way as well. Physically, I just didn't feel like
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  Speaker 2: I measured up. I don't know how you felt going
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  Speaker 2: through it. I mean, your beautiful, you know woman, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure you were just as beautiful then, but like
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  Speaker 2: in terms of like outfits that you wore or just
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  Speaker 2: the physical piece of it, how did you feel about
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  Speaker 2: all that?
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  Speaker 1: It was not the high pressure thing. We were not
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  Speaker 1: getting glam for this, like he was getting professional makeup done.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we cared about, like, you know, what dresses
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  Speaker 1: and stuff we were wearing. We wanted to look cute
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  Speaker 1: for everything. It was like we were going to forever
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  Speaker 1: twenty one and getting like whatever color. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: each of our days Because I like Gia talked about
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  Speaker 1: her experience, I feel like mine was very similar. And
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  Speaker 1: then it took like three weekends where you were spending
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  Speaker 1: your Saturday and Sunday rushing, and there were different nights
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  Speaker 1: and we had like different colored outfits. So like one
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  Speaker 1: of the nights they want us to wear a black dress,
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  Speaker 1: one of them they wanted a red dress. But it
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  Speaker 1: was really low stakes and that we weren't buying like
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  Speaker 1: designer stuff by any means. We weren't spending any more
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  Speaker 1: time getting ready for this than we would any other
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  Speaker 1: you know day going out in college.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.
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  Speaker 1: Really low stakes. To me, it felt it felt fun
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  Speaker 1: and there were definitely like you know, reputations for each
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  Speaker 1: sorority house, like the one I ended up joining was
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  Speaker 1: like more like the blonde sorority house with like we
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  Speaker 1: had the best grades, which honestly now I credit to
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  Speaker 1: like graduating on time and having good grades in college
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  Speaker 1: because I wasn't the greatest student in high school. But
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  Speaker 1: in the sorority, if you if your GPA dropped below
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  Speaker 1: a certain point, you couldn't go to any reprobation right
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  Speaker 1: right and then or you would get kicked out if
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  Speaker 1: you were you know, had multiple semesters in a row
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  Speaker 1: where you weren't making grades. So it really like that
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  Speaker 1: motivated me. I was like, I want to go to
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  Speaker 1: all the parties I don't want to be put on
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  Speaker 1: social probation, so my is always number one in grades,
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  Speaker 1: and I really like I think that had a bit
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  Speaker 1: of big effect on me.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I have to say at least not
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember time talking with one of my guests
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  Speaker 2: them saying that beinging to Soorty help so much with
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  Speaker 2: their grades. I think that is really interesting. And to
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  Speaker 2: a lot of our listeners who are considering rushing or
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  Speaker 2: already like that is that's a fabulous, you know advantage.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that a lot of people would would
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  Speaker 2: credit their sorority with good grades, but I guess that's
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  Speaker 2: you know, it happens. I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we also went We had a computer lab, which
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  Speaker 1: now I'm looking back is like so out with like
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  Speaker 1: actual desktop computers. And we had a filing cabinet that
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  Speaker 1: had all of the former girl's notes from classes. So like,
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  Speaker 1: if you were taking ECON one oh one, right, go
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  Speaker 1: to the filing cabinet, pull up all of the ECON
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  Speaker 1: professor's names, and then you could pull all the notes
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  Speaker 1: that the girls took previously in that class.
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  Speaker 2: She eat your ass off, And it wasn't cheating.
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  Speaker 1: It was more like study guides or like if you
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  Speaker 1: missed a day of class, it was like, all right, well,
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  Speaker 1: I can just go and get somebody else's notes. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have to like be worried about taking the best
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  Speaker 1: notes the entire tay. And then if you did take
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  Speaker 1: like really good notes on a class, you would drop
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  Speaker 1: them in the filing cabinet and be like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: the girls after me, you're going to love those. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: That also was like a big help, like being like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I can at least like go look at somebody else's
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  Speaker 1: notes if I'm like not doing well in the class.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so because I don't remember my daughter really
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  Speaker 2: even talking about not being able to go to parties
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  Speaker 2: if her grades were I know my son talked about that,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to say there was one semester where
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  Speaker 2: he was close to getting put on probation and it
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  Speaker 2: definitely kicked his ass because we don't talk about that
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  Speaker 2: a lot on the pod about how can actually give
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  Speaker 2: you that, you know, motivate you a little bit in
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  Speaker 2: terms of.
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  Speaker 1: Your curly I got put on social probation once I
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  Speaker 1: think freshman or sow you do okay, not for grades.
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  Speaker 1: This was so bad looking back our swordyhouse. Actually we
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  Speaker 1: did not bring guys back to the house. You could
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  Speaker 1: have guys in the main areas, like in the living
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  Speaker 1: room like until I don't know, nine pm or something,
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  Speaker 1: and like till maybe eleven or something on the weekends,
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  Speaker 1: but other than that, like guys were never upstairs in
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  Speaker 1: the hallways or in people's bedrooms ever. And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I always liked that, Like when I lived in the house,
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  Speaker 1: it felt safe. You could walk around a towel or
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  Speaker 1: bathrobe and you weren't worried about like bumping into somebody's
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend or hooking up. But before I lived in the house,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't. I was like, oh, that can't be like
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  Speaker 1: a real rule. And we had a rooftop deck that,
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  Speaker 1: like you we would like lay out and like suntan on.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the fraternity guys that I met freshman
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  Speaker 1: year was like, let's go smoke pot on the kyo
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  Speaker 1: deck and I was like, yeah, sure, I'm sure, Like
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  Speaker 1: that's probably what they do every weekend. I bet they're
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  Speaker 1: like smoking all the time. And so me, not even
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  Speaker 1: living in the house, snuck a guy in the house
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  Speaker 1: up to the rooftop and we were like smoking to
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  Speaker 1: joint up there.
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  Speaker 2: You and I had been best friends in college.
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  Speaker 1: I was in college. It was a big, big stoner
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  Speaker 1: and so the older girls were like, what are you
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  Speaker 1: What do you think you're doing? Like this was so ballsy?
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  Speaker 2: Oh dare you truly?
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  Speaker 1: They were like, we don't even bring our boyfriends here,
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  Speaker 1: and you're going to bring some random guy freshman over
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  Speaker 1: to smoke pot. Like good for you you're doing. And so
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  Speaker 1: I got put on social probation, which now to this
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  Speaker 1: day I credit a marriage and three kids too. Because
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  Speaker 1: we were I missed our like yearly uh date party,
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  Speaker 1: which was Uncle Buck's, which was like a like you
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  Speaker 1: dressed up in cowboy themed stuff and it was like
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  Speaker 1: in a barn in the middle of nowhere with a
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  Speaker 1: DJ and we would just like dance and everybody brought
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  Speaker 1: a date. And I was supposed to bring one of
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  Speaker 1: my guy friends who was in the same fraternity as
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  Speaker 1: the boy I snuck in to smoke weed. I was like, Jimmy,
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  Speaker 1: I can't bring you to the date party. I'm on
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  Speaker 1: social probation, and he was like, man, I really wanted
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  Speaker 1: to go, Like that's it was like one of the
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  Speaker 1: hot date parties of the year. Everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, my friend Jess just got dumped. Why
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  Speaker 1: don't I see if she can bring you and you guys,
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  Speaker 1: you know you might actually like her, and that they
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  Speaker 1: started dating after that, end up getting married and now
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  Speaker 1: they have three kids together. So thank god that I
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  Speaker 1: ended up being put on social probation because I like,
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  Speaker 1: set up this couple that's like now been together for
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  Speaker 1: like fifteen years.
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  Speaker 2: Look at you go. I thought you were going to
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  Speaker 2: say that it was the reason that you got buried
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  Speaker 2: and had three kids, and I'm like trying to I
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  Speaker 2: was like, wait a second, I have to configure everything
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  Speaker 2: for right, Okay, Because I.
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  Speaker 1: Was in trouble and I couldn't bring him as my date,
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  Speaker 1: I set him up with my friend and they're still
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  Speaker 1: together till this day.
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  Speaker 2: Doing good, doing God's work. Baby. Yes, absolutely, So tell
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  Speaker 2: me a little bit about in terms of the parties,
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  Speaker 2: like what were they wild? Was everyone getting wasted? Was
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  Speaker 2: because now there's so many rules around them?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, so was it? Did you have any experiences
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  Speaker 2: that you want to share a party girl A little bit?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I was social chair, my I want to say
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  Speaker 1: jun and that the whole thing about social Chair was
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  Speaker 1: like we weren't allowed to use the social budget on alcohol,
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  Speaker 1: so we had to like find they would give us
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  Speaker 1: a check or like cash and that we could take out,
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  Speaker 1: but we had to like account for what we were
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  Speaker 1: using it for. So really the job of social chair
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  Speaker 1: was like I don't know exactly what laundering money is,
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  Speaker 1: but I feel like that's what I was doing, being like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we're like using this is like cups and decorations and
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  Speaker 1: food and this. You would just like make a list
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  Speaker 1: and like write out the accounting for what we were
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  Speaker 1: using the money for. You like two hundred dollars a party,
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  Speaker 1: which now looking back and wow, why a party for
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  Speaker 1: like I mean, this was like almost one hundred girls
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  Speaker 1: in my sorority one hundred fraternity guys, so like under
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  Speaker 1: five hundred bucks between the two, you know, sorority fraternity
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  Speaker 1: like to throw like a party for that many people
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  Speaker 1: and cover the booze for that many people is kind
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  Speaker 1: of insane, but yeah, we would throw it would all
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  Speaker 1: all the money would end up going to like Natty Light.
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  Speaker 1: It was like the gross beer that we would get.
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  Speaker 2: Oh right, Natty Right, that's who said I just learned
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  Speaker 2: with that list, there's a Morgan wallin song. Oh it's yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So it always it all ended up. I think you
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  Speaker 1: could get a thirty pack of Natty Light back in
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  Speaker 1: my college is for eleven ninety nine, we could get
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  Speaker 1: like a couple hundred dollars worth of Natty Light and
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  Speaker 1: all the parties we would do themes, so we would
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  Speaker 1: do like sports themes where everybody's in jerseys. One night
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  Speaker 1: we would do like can you think of some of
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  Speaker 1: the other good ones we did, but we all we
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  Speaker 1: do like the like boat Hose and something like golf
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  Speaker 1: pros and boat Hose would be like one of them
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  Speaker 1: where like all the guys would dress up in like
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  Speaker 1: polos and golf stuff and we would be in like
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  Speaker 1: basically bikinis. Right, We would all do like theme parties.
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  Speaker 1: It would almost always be in a gross fratthouse basement
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  Speaker 1: and we would just hug in Natty.
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  Speaker 2: Lights the whole day. It's hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: It's like my mom was ended up paying for my
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  Speaker 1: beer budget because you know, she made the sorority dues
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  Speaker 1: that then ended up going to the social fund that
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  Speaker 1: I was then you know, like sneaking ways to find
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  Speaker 1: to buy Natty Light with.
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  Speaker 2: Anything like about just being the social chair that our
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  Speaker 2: listeners may be interested in, or would you do it again?
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  Speaker 2: Would you want to be social chair again? Was? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's still a lot of work.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was the most fun of the jobs,
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  Speaker 1: like president vice president, because you had to like get
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  Speaker 1: people in trouble and be in people's.
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  Speaker 2: Like appropriation meetings.
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  Speaker 1: Social chair everybody loved, like there wouldn't be your party girl. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I would be like, oh, thanks, like you got you
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  Speaker 1: managed to get the beer covered, so it would be
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  Speaker 1: a really fun job. And I would say, like if
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  Speaker 1: if you don't take things too seriously, that's like the
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  Speaker 1: position for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I didn't feel like it didn't feel like
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  Speaker 2: work as much for you, right, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Think there was. I mean I had to go to
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  Speaker 1: like the executive board chapter meetings with like the president,
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: vice president, you know, accounting chair. I'm trying to think
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: of some of the other positions we had, but like
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: you know, mine was just like everybody knew that, like
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: my main job was like making sure that our advisors
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: didn't find out what you're spending the money on beer.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's definitely what I would want. That would
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: be the role that I would be interested in absolutely.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: How did you get it? How did you become social chair?
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: I think we.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Voted for people, and you know, I think I got it.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: This is like I said, I was like a stoner
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: in college. That was like like my and my sorority
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: was like, you know, we were the good grades. Like
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: I was like kind of like the odd man out
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: in that sense, like not a lot of my other
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: sorority girls like were like smoking weed with me. I
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: would like, go, I was like friends with a lot
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: of the frat guys, and we would like I would
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: like be like their bro and like smoke points with them.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: But there was one what was it a really important
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: ceremony that we were doing. I think it was, Oh
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: it was our initiation when we were bringing in new members.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: And this was like a really serious ceremony where we
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: were all in the basement. We were all wearing like
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: white robes, and we would read from like the scripture
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: of the sorority. So it's like it looks like a
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: church service. And the initiation ceremony happened to fall on
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: four twenty one year, which is like you know the
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: stoner results right right, And I was like, oh, man,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: like I remember like begging my friend.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry I don't because I know I only learned
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: about it through my kids. What it is like the
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: pot It's like pot National Pot Day or something.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's like Bob Marley's birth is the
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: drum or something like that. But like four twenty has
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: like always been like the weed pot holiday, right, And
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: so I was like, I was like begging the president.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: I'm like, you have to move it from four twenty,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: like we're not going to do this, and instead they
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: wouldn't move it. I was like I got really into
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: baking in college with weeds, so I would like make
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: weed butter and like all this stuff and on. So
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: like the day before four twenty, I made one hundred
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: weed funfetti cupcakes.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Oh you would have been my best friend. I would
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: have been I would have I mean still I feel
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: like you and I just just definitely clicked. But oh
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: my god, you and I would have been.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Like this right right. So I was like I may
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: have these little green funfetti cupcakes. And the main thing
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: was like I was gonna like the frack guys had
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: given me a bunch of pot and they're like and
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: then sell them for like five bucks a pop. Okay,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: get the sorority girls who want them for initiation. Every
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: single girl was like, I want one. I kind of
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: want to try, like if I'm going to be stuck
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: at home on four to twenty in this initiation ceremony,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: And half of these girls had never smoked in their life,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: so they were like, all right, here's five bucks. I'm
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: gonna try pot for the first time, like right whatever.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: So every like, I think almost everybody in the sorority
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: bought a pot cupcake off of me, and we all
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: ate them right before this ceremony that again is like church,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: like we're in like white robes. It's like like like
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: looking back, like not the place you want to be
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: stoned for, and so everybody's like eating them. We're all
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: like what. They're all like, what's gonna happen. I'm like,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: you know, give it like thirty forty five minutes, you're
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: gonna feel great, giggly. Halfway through the ceremony, everybody loses
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: their mind. Everybody is cracking up. All of the girls
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: who are like having to read from like the scripture
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: are like getting like through like a half a sentence
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: and like unable to like control themselves like just and
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: once one person cracked and like sort of think the
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: whole room would start laughing. We like barely got through it.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I don't think any of the new girls who were
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: like going through the initiation knew what was going on.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: They were like, why are they all right?
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Everybody just ended up getting so stoned in the middle
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: of this ceremony. So I think that that after that
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: I got elected.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah there, I think that that makes absolute sense. If
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: I was there, I would have thought Janet for social chair,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: I would have one hundred percent campaigned for you. It
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: was a natural fit, right, Yeah, it felt.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Like a natural fit, and it was just this like
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: funny thing. And I still get texts from friends now
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: who are like, oh, my kids are in bed, it's
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: four twenty. My husband and I like got edibles, we're
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: gonna whatever. Do you remember the time that we all
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: took those weed cupcakes? And like, I will never forget that.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Are you still good friends with a lot of the girls.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I have a couple, So I I probably have ten
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: girlfriends from my sorority that I stay in touch with
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: and four that I like, we do like a yearly
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: trip together every year.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so we're all.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: In different parts of the country, but we make a
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: point we have a group chat, and then we try
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: like once a year to do like a vacation together somewhere.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: That's fun. I love that. Okay, so this is a
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: little CORNBALI question whatever, but I have to ask do
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: you feel like being social chair prepared you for I
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: don't did to prepare you for anything? Did you take
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: it with you, you know, into your actual life. Do
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: you feel like it's a role that translates into anything
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: you're doing now? I mean, obviously we'll talk a little
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: bit about the valley, but right do you see any similarities.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: It made me want to be a host, Like I
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: liked the idea of like hosting the parties, sending out
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: the patients, Okay, picking a theme, like you know, just
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: having it be like my party, like like like that aspect,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: and I now like my favorite thing is to like
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: throw a dinner party. I feel like we get stuck
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: having to do a lot of the theme parties like
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: on Bravo shows. Yeah, so some of those, I'm like, man,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: I like got that out of my system in college.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: There's times where I'm like Brittany, if you pick a
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: theme for this part and tell you can't we just
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: like have a normal night. But I will say, like
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I think it maybe like jump started the host in
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: me and like enjoying like planning and setting up a
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: party and and then like you know, the praise of
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: like everybody having a good time. Wow.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I could see how that would translate. I mean,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: the last thing I ever want to do is throw
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: a party, really dinner. Oh my god. I like to
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: go to a party. Specific I'd like to go to
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: one of your parties, but no, like figuring out a
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: menu that would not be for me.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Love that. That's my favorite thing is having everybody over, cooking
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: a big dinner, like having a twelve person dinner party
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: is my favorite thing on earth.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Oh my god. Yeah. Okay, So got to talk a
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: little bit about season three of The Valley, which is
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: premiering April April first, April first, Okay, so very very exciting.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Tell me a little bit about how filming this season
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: was compared to last season.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Honestly, last season was so dark because we were all
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: kind of right in the center of Jackson Brittany's separation,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: looming divorce, and I feel like Jack's kind of sucked
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: the air out of the room a lot. It was
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: like just very heavy. A lot of the topics that
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: we were having to deal with because of Jack's were
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: just really dark, and it just it felt like anytime
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: we were having fun, it would be like Brittany would
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: be like, guess what he just did or guess what
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: he just texted me? Right, And that kind of was
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: like this dark cloud around last season, And I feel
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: like this season was It's the most I've ever laughed. Like,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: while I feel like, yeah, it's had the most fun,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I feel like and it just felt a lot lighter
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: and more fun. Granted there's still drama, like there's a
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: bunch of us, like you know, don't like each other,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: don't get along over certain things, so there's still all
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: of that, but it just felt normal, like bullsh that
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: happens in life, not like really dark, heavy topics all
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: the time.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: That's so interesting because in terms of like the two
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: seasons I did on Housewives on New Jersey, the first
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: season thirteen was so much fun and we had so
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, it was again there was drama, but it
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: was like we still we had so many laughs. The
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: cast trip was like amazing, and then season fourteen it
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: turned into a lot of just heaviness and darkness, and
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: now we've been on pause for a couple of years.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: So I if I'm picking, I would definitely prefer then
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: season three to season two of The Valley. I'm so
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: excited to watch it.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're also going to see Lala on Schwartz join,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: which I'm so happy about. Like, Lala's been one of
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: my best friends for years now, and so it is right.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I feel like one of the things that like The
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Valley really like nailed in, Like in picking all of
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: us is like all of us are real friends in
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: real life, right, you know, Lala popped in she was
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: like at my birthday season one, and she filmed a
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: little bit season two and she was pregnant and so
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: you saw little bits and pieces of her because it
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: would have been strange for her not to be a
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: part of it. Otherwise she and Schwarts are full time
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: with us, which it just feels like right and like
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: you know, all this stuff anytime she wasn't at like
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: a party or an event, and like this wouldn't how
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: this wouldn't be how it is like if we didn't
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: have cameras up, so it feels like cameras are like
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: now at the things that we would have off camera. God,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: it's all like lining up the way it's supposed to.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: And they have a best friends next to you. It
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: definitely changes everything, right.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: A sober best friend like Lala is sober, so like
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: days after when all of us are like lit and
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: having the time of our lives on camera and people
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: are like, well, this person said this, and then this happened.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Lala's like, uhh, that's not how I said this first.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Then she said this, then this happened, and I'm like,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: thank god. I'm like, we have somebody sober in the
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: group who can like fully just like recount everything as
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: it happens and tell the truth.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: The Greek chorus. That's awesome. Yeah, I cannot wait to
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: watch fun. So can you compare the valley and your
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: experience on it with being in a sorority? Is it?
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Does it feel like at all the same?
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I think you know what's similar? I feel like it's
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: sort of like, yeah, I feel like in we all
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: have like our individual like groups, like you know, Brittany, Lala,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Michelle and I, Like we have a group chat. We
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: talk all the time. So I feel like in the
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: sorority life, like you had your best friends or your room.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Then you had like the big group that you would
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: see like at all the socials. So that's like you
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: know people that are like maybe we're not as close
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: with but like you know, we're still in the friend group,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: or you don't like that you have this anyway, right,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: And it's almost sort of like the Bravo world too,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: is like other shows are sort of like other sororities.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Like I remember talking to Gina from Orange County and
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: being like we're basically like, you know, sorority sisters, just
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: in different sororities.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And Bravocon is like, you know, getting to bring
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: all that together, which is so much fun. It's sort
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: of like mirror that, like that that sorority group. Like
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: there's different clubs and different different groups, but everybody kind
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: of has the same understanding of like you know, like
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: you can you can bitch with another sorority girl who's
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: in a different storty about like oh I have to
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: go to like initiation today, and they understand like oh,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: chapter meetings are like you know, so annoying on Sundays
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: and now you have the same understanding for how things work.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: I have a confessional, I have a cast trip.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: That's interesting because I definitely clicked with people at Bravo
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: con and and I've unlike a lot of people that
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: go on reality TV, I am a fan. I've been
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: a fan. I've watched every Housewife episode ever, so it's
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: a little bit of my first one, especially like I
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: get I got a little starstruck. Yeah, and but this
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: last year, I was like, it was just so easy
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: to connect with people because there's there's just a shared
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: experience there. I think that probably applies right to sororities
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: in terms of just you know, your goal and especially
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: like the sisters that you pledge with. Yeah, right, it's
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: just sort of this shared experience which is really fun
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: and very unique in terms of I think friendships life,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: you know, long friendships, and you know, to be able
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: to have that, to have that history together, it kind
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: of bonds you, right, totally.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that shared experience like yeah, like sharing your life,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: like getting love and hate online, like yep, you know,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: it's something all of us. You know, no matter if
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: what show you're on or what you're doing, it's like
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: everybody experiences like those highs and lows, you know, like
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: the having to be in the glam chair so much.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there is a lot.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Of like shared experience. I feel like that all of
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: us have. And yeah, Bravo con I have been such
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: a big fan of so many Bravo shows for a
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: long time now. Chris Cody gave me for it on
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: our show and was like, you're a fan, and I'm like,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: I'm a proud fan. I love a one hundred percent,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Like I think it's so much fun and so yeah,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: same thing like getting to meet people from shows that
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I've watched for years. In your Housewife so cool, right,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I find so iconic you getting to sit next to you.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I heard awards and be like, oh my god, Jenfestler's
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: next to me. Like it's just like, yeah, it's a
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: really exciting fun world.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember this past time. I'd met her before,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: but I was in the bathroom Bravo Khan and Kathy
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Hilton and Nikki Hilton came out and Kathy, who has
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: said this to me at other events, and I'm bragging
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: a little bit, but I can't help it. She's like,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: I love what you are wearing.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: She gave it.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: She it was I thought I would die. She's like,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: you look, you look so chic. She goes, you really
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: don't look like a housewife, which I thought, which I
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: thought was hilarious.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: She probably thinks of the housewife fashion is like so
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: over the top and like extra.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I never really I'm old, so I'm
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: never like you know, tits out for harambie. So that's
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: the expression, right, I love that. Yeah, that's good, good, good,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: all right, my friend. I loved having you here. You're
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: du so much fun. It was really fun. You're the best.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: You're the best. Okay you guys, April first, Jannet, I
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: really am. I'm psyched. I love that. It's going to
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: be a little more fun, a little less dark.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: It's going to be good.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: I know those are always the best seasons.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Yeay, my love, Thank you so much having me.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Thank you, bye bye bye. All right, guys, so we
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: will see you next time on another episode of Dirty Rush.
• 29:29
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